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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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Subject: Bug zappers
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Date: 14 Jun 88 19:21:22 GMT
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In article <3131@ut-emx.UUCP> Ron Morgan writes:

>[deleted suggestion about "bat houses" to house bats which eat lots of bugs]
>
>I'm not sure about this one. Bats are also notorious carriers of rabies. It'd
>just take one rabid bat, then next would be the neigborhood pets, and so on.
>No way, Jose...

If you're not sure, why post?

Cottontails and squirrels are worse, to say nothing of pidgeons (a.k.a.
flying rats) as general disease carriers (not rabies). What's the likelihood
of pets catching bats which feed in the air (at night yet) as opposed to
animals which feed on the ground?

I'll take the bats any day.

Rich